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AGS Apex Base Shoe System.

Unobstructed views, engineered performance. Apex is AGS’s base shoe glass railing system: glazing infills from ½ in. to 13/16 in. held in a base shoe on engineered anchoring, for interior and exterior work. It is AGS’s most popular system.

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Curved glass guard in a base shoe around a two-storey atrium

Base shoe
Glazing infill, ½ in. to 13/16 in.
Cap rail

Advent Health Cancer Center

Apex  Specification

From the AGS Apex brochure.

Unobstructed views. Engineered performance. Designed, fabricated and installed by AGS.

System

Base shoe glass railing system

Glazing infill

Supports ½ in. to 13/16 in. glazing infills

Anchoring

Engineered anchoring systems

Applications

Interior and exterior

Fabrication

Custom fabrication

Details

Base shoe; splice

Finishes

Stainless steel or custom powder coat

Glass type

Tempered or laminated glazing between ½” and 13/16” thickness

Specification section

057300

Apex  Detail

The base shoe, close.

The glass stands in a continuous base shoe along the stair; the brochure’s base shoe and splice details show the same channel.

Glass guard in a base shoe along a stair, with a stainless handrail on brackets, seen from above

Base shoe
Glazing infill

Apex photographs

Installed by AGS.

Glass guard on a base shoe up a two-storey dealership stair — Audi dealership, Merriam
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Glass guard and stainless handrail around a stair landing below a Kansas City skyline mural — Audi dealership, Merriam
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Curved glass guard along a mezzanine above the lobby — Advent Health Cancer Center
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Glass guard along an upper walkway above the lobby — Advent Health Cancer Center
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Curved glass guard around a mezzanine above a blue stair — NKC Rising Hill Elementary
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Curved glass guards on both sides of a school stair — NKC Rising Hill Elementary
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Glass guard along the open landing and stair of a two-storey commons — Fort Leonard Wood
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Glass guards with white uprights and stainless handrails around a stair opening and up a white stair in an office lobby — Principal Financial HQ, Des Moines, IA
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Stainless handrail on brackets along a glass guard beside a terrazzo stair, seen from below — Principal Financial HQ, Des Moines, IA
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Glass guards along the open floors and stairs of a skylit multi-storey atrium — Principal Financial HQ, Des Moines, IA
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Glass guard on a base shoe along an open-riser timber stair — AGS Apex
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Glass guards on base shoes at both sides of an open-riser timber stair — AGS Apex
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Glass guards on base shoes around a stair opening and up a white stair in an office lobby — AGS Apex
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Glass guard with a stainless handrail along a red feature stair with bleacher seating — AGS Apex
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Glass guard and stainless handrails on a red feature stair with bleacher seating — AGS Apex
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Glass guard on a base shoe along a white stair stringer above a commons — AGS Apex
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Stainless handrail and glass guard climbing a red stair — AGS Apex
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Glass guard and stainless handrail on a terrazzo stair — AGS Apex
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Glass guard and handrail down a long straight stair beside a lit timber wall — AGS Apex
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Glass guards on base shoes at a stair and landing in an office atrium — AGS Apex
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Glass guards on base shoes up a feature stair beside a lit timber wall — AGS Apex
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Glass guards and stainless handrails at a stair landing, seen from above — AGS Apex
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Glass guard and stainless handrail running down a stair beside a timber wall — AGS Apex
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Apex  Brochure

The Apex sheet.

The AGS Apex sheet: the system, its details and finish options, as AGS publishes it.

Where AGS has installed it

Audi dealership, Merriam
Advent Health Cancer Center
NKC Rising Hill Elementary
Fort Leonard Wood
Principal Financial HQ, Des Moines, IA

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The AGS Apex brochure: Apex Base Shoe System, with its details and finish options

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